Open wottpal opened 1 year ago
For completeness, this is my current solution to tackle this: https://github.com/scio-labs/inkathon/blob/28dcecc204da363e7301b590321635ac45ae78ed/packages/contracts/package.json#L11
Unfortunately, with online-versions of Contracts-UI & Polkadot.js explorer only. This makes it not only rely on a stable internet connection during development but is also a tiny bit more error-prone (e.g. on Brave Browser it doesn't work on default even with the most conservative Shields configuration).
thanks @wottpal for submitting this. we definitely have something like this on the roadmap
Hey there, I love what you've built with
contracts-ui
!For new devs and/or terminal maniacs that don't want to rely on the only version or an internet connection for development, it would be awesome to have an easier way to install this thing. And then fire it up via a terminal command which also opens a browser automatically.
As
substrate-contracts-node
is already installable via cargo it would probably be consistent to have something likesubstrate-contracts-ui
installable similarly. But I'm not sure (due to inexperience with cargo) if javascript/npm projects are possible. I would be fine with a brew or global npm package, too.Alternatively, it could be a gret idea to bundle this with
substrate-contracts-node
directly and then allow some kind ofsubstrate-contracts-node --with-ui
flag that automatically: starts the node, starts & opens contracts-ui, and preselects the local node. This also has the additional advantage that incompatibility issues (like https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-contracts-node/issues/157#issuecomment-1308495927) are eliminated implicitly by only bundling dependencies that are compatible (and if there is none, a warning can be shown).